The following is a recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company.
Many other companies have recently stated that having their employees take the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course has greatly improved productivity. One graduate of the course was able to read a 500-page report in only two hours; another graduate rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under a year. Obviously, the faster you can read, the more information you can absorb in a single workday. Moreover, Easy Read would cost Acme only $500 per employee—a small price to pay when you consider the benefits. Included in this fee is a three-week seminar in Spruce City and a lifelong subscription to the Easy Read newsletter. Clearly, to improve productivity, Acme should require all of our employees to take the Easy Read course.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the advice and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the advice.
The personnel director in Acme Publishing Company gives a proposal to the president. The proposer indicates the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course could advance the ability of the workers and provides two examples: one of the graduators of the class could read 500 pages report in two hours; the other was promoted from assistant manager to the vice president in a mere year. In addition, the cost of the course is only $500 with a three-week seminar. The proposer, therefore, claims that all of the employees should take the Easy Read course in order to improve their productivity. However, the proposal is unconvincing because numerous equivocal assumptions must be made for a sound proof.
First of all, the proposer provides an example of a graduate could read a 500-page report in only two hours. Despite the significant reading speed, it cannot be sure that if the graduate really read every word in the report. It is possible that the graduate just read the outline or the first and last sentence of each paragraph. Even the graduate read all of the words, it still cannot be confident that he/she understood the report. Any of these scenarios, if true, would undermine the claim of taking the course could improve productivity. The proposer should examine the details to support the effect of taking the course.
The proposer then indicates the other example of a vice president was elevated from assistant manager in a year after taking the Easy Read course. Nevertheless, the major cause of promoting is not clear. The promotion usually does not just result from the advancing reading skill but also other contributions. It has to concern about other reasons causing the promotion such as the vice president’s experience, the educational background, and the career potential. If the proposer can offer the more exact evidence to show the vice president’s promotion is merely based on the improvement of the advancing reading skill but any other possible reason. The ramifications of taking the course could be effective.
Finally, The proposer asserts that the cost of the course is $500 with three-week seminar so he/she recommends that all the employees should take the class. The assertion shows a flaw that whether everyone in the company should take the course. If it is true that the Easy Read course is indeed helpful for the productivity, what if the cleaners and the security guards. It is possible that there are some laborers in the company does not need the skill of speeding reading to finish their jobs. On the other hand, if everyone in the company leaves the job and goes to take the course, it will be three weeks without anyone to run the business. Perhaps, the personnel director could propose that the managers take the course first. After assuring the developmental possibility of the course, the president could decide whether and how others take the course as well.
To sum up, the proposer could not succeed in offering the compelling reason for the recommendation of taking the Easy Read course. To reinforce the statement, the proposer should indicate the real effects after taking the course and provides the more effectual plans to the president. The proposal then could be more acceptable. Without this evidence, claim stands weak.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 484, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...r. The proposer, therefore, claims that all of the employees should take the Easy Read cou...
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Line 3, column 354, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
... each paragraph. Even the graduate read all of the words, it still cannot be confident tha...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, really, so, still, then, therefore, well, as to, in addition, such as, first of all, it is true, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.9520958084 162% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2742.0 2260.96107784 121% => OK
No of words: 543.0 441.139720559 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04972375691 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82725184711 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73870597742 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 204.123752495 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.434622467772 0.468620217663 93% => OK
syllable_count: 846.0 705.55239521 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 20.0 8.76447105788 228% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.5729385269 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.9285714286 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3928571429 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.39285714286 5.70786347227 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.20758483034 183% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.322224065537 0.218282227539 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0944504707168 0.0743258471296 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0686862566079 0.0701772020484 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.201941352026 0.128457276422 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0809591682941 0.0628817314937 129% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.3799401198 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 98.500998004 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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